== Wöchentlicher PostgreSQL Newsletter - 14. August 2011 ==

== Wöchentlicher PostgreSQL Newsletter - 14. August 2011 ==

am 15.08.2011 11:54:42 von adsmail

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== Wöchentlicher PostgreSQL Newsletter - 14. August 2011 ==

== PostgreSQL Produkt Neuigkeiten ==

MyJSQLView 3.30, ein GUI Werkzeug welches mit PostgreSQL verwendet
werden kann, ist erschienen.
http://dandymadeproductions.com/projects/MyJSQLView/

pgpool-II 3.1.0 beta1, ein Connection Pooler und mehr,
ist erschienen.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/

Ein deutschsprachiges Tutorial für PostgreSQL 9.0 ist erschienen.
http://workshop-postgresql.de

pgwatch 1.0beta2, ein Monitoring Werkzeug für PostgreSQL,
ist erschienen.
http://www.cybertec.at/en/pgwatch/

== PostgreSQL Lokal ==

PGDay Porto Alegre findet am 19. August 19 2011
in Porto Alegre, RS, Brasilien statt.
http://www.postgresql.org.br/eventos/2011/pgday/rs

Postgres Open 2011, eine Konferenz die sich auf den Umbruch der
Datenbankindustrie durch PostgreSQL konzentriert, wird vom 14. bis 16.
September 2011 in Chicago, Illinois im Westin Michigan Avenue
Hotel stattfinden.
http://postgresopen.org

PG-Day Denver 2011 findet am Freitag, dem 21. Oktober 2011 auf dem
Auraria Campus in der Nähe von Downtown Denver, Colorado statt.
http://pgday.consistentstate.com/

PostgreSQL Conference West (#PgWest) findet vom 27. bis 30. September
2011 im San Jose Convention Center in Jan Jose, Kalifornen, USA statt.
http://www.postgresqlconference.org

PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 findet vom 18. bis
21. Oktober in Amsterdam statt.
http://2011.pgconf.eu/

pgbr findet in Sao Paulo, Brazilien, am 3. und 4. November 2011 statt.
http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/

PGConf.DE 2011 ist die Deutschsprachige PostgreSQL Konferenz
und wird am 11. November 2011 im Rheinischen Industriemuseum
in Oberhausen, Deutschland, stattfinden. Der Call for Papers ist offen.
http://2011.pgconf.de/

== PostgreSQL in den News ==

Planet PostgreSQL: http://planet.postgresql.org/

Dieser wöchentliche PostgreSQL Newsletter wurde erstellt von David Fet=
ter.

Sende Neuigkeiten und Ankündigungen bis Sonntag, 15 Uhr Pazifischer
Zeit. Bitte sende englische Beiträge an david@fetter.org, deutsche an
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== Reviews ==

== Angewandte Patches ==

Andrew Dunstan pushed:

- Correct the lie in pg_config.h.win32 about having inttypes.h. This
lie has been harmless until now, but has been exposed by the change
to include postgres.h before the python headers, which in some
versions include inttypes.h if HAVE_INTTYPES_H is set.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f54e373d93f72d87ce2c afd7373bd7b0534=
b2065

Robert Haas pushed:

- Teach vacuumlo to limit number of removals, via new -l option.
Also, handle failure better: don't just blindly keep trying to
delete stuff after the transaction has already failed. Tim Lewis,
reviewed by Josh Kupershmidt, with further hacking by me.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b69f2e36402aaa222ed0 3c1769b3de6d5be=
5f302

- Teach psql to display the comments on conversions and domains. \dc
and \dD now accept a "+" option, which will cause the comments to be
displayed. Along the way, correct a few oversights in the previous
commit in this area, 3b17efdfdd846c9bfad1637686e6f18198ea3df5 -
namely, (1) when \dL+ is used, make description still be the last
column, for consistency with what we've done elsewhere; and (2)
document the difference between \dC and \dC+. Josh Kupershmidt,
with a couple of doc changes by me.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c9ac00e6ecfaad4d6a3e 1ee478b912c7227=
ae62a

- Teach psql to display the comments on SQL/MED objects in verbose
mode. The relevant backslash commands already exist, so we're just
adding an additional column. With this commit, all objects that
have psql backslash commands and accept comments should now display
those comments at least in verbose mode. Josh Kupershmidt, with doc
additions by me.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d82a9d2a600b764aabdc 37507c50d9229f8=
310b5

- Change psql's \dd command to do something more useful. Instead of
displaying comments on an arbitrary subset of the object types which
support them, make \dd display comments on exactly those object
types which don't have their own backlash commands. We now regard
the display of comments as properly the job of the relevant
backslash command (though many of them do so only in verbose mode)
rather than something that \dd should be responsible for. However,
a handful of object types have no backlash command, so make \dd give
information about those. Josh Kupershmidt
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/59414cdedbc2ed418d66 eddc0fcaf9dc40f=
bc27f

- Unbreak legacy syntax "COMMENT ON RULE x IS y", with no relation
name. check_object_ownership() isn't happy about the null relation
pointer. We could fix it there, but this seems more future-proof.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5057366eedaccef1f4c2 5a7c5de0d6c1c5a=
291f1

- Display both per-table and per-column FDW options in psql's \d
output. Along the way, rename "Options" to "FDW Options" in various
places for consistency and clarity. Shigeru Hanada
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d82d84864ca8ee2960a1 a5d7a3f051290ac=
1e42f

Tom Lane pushed:

- Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in
targetlists. A PlaceHolderVar's expression might contain another,
lower-level PlaceHolderVar. If the outer PlaceHolderVar is used,
the inner one certainly will be also, and so we have to make sure
that both of them get into the placeholder_list with correct
ph_may_need values during the initial pre-scan of the query (before
deconstruct_jointree starts). We did this correctly for
PlaceHolderVars appearing in the query quals, but overlooked the
issue for those appearing in the top-level targetlist; with the
result that nested placeholders referenced only in the targetlist
did not work correctly, as illustrated in bug #6154. While at it,
add some error checking to find_placeholder_info to ensure that we
don't try to create new placeholders after it's too late to do so;
they have to all be created before deconstruct_jointree starts.
Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/77ba23256404d6f975a8 0d5402e62f6047c=
67b3a

- Avoid creating PlaceHolderVars immediately within PlaceHolderVars.
Such a construction is useless since the lower PlaceHolderVar is
already nullable; no need to make it more so. Noted while pursuing
bug #6154. This is just a minor planner efficiency improvement,
since the final plan will come out the same anyway after PHVs are
flattened. So not worth the risk of back-patching.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cff60f2dfa470d5736a1 9d36eb910844e31=
db764

- Documentation improvement and minor code cleanups for the latch
facility. Improve the documentation around weak-memory-ordering
risks, and do a pass of general editorialization on the comments in
the latch code. Make the Windows latch code more like the Unix
latch code where feasible; in particular provide the same Assert
checks in both implementations. Fix poorly-placed WaitLatch call in
syncrep.c. This patch resolves, for the moment, concerns around
weak-memory-ordering bugs in latch-related code: we have documented
the restrictions and checked that existing calls meet them. In 9.2
I hope that we will install suitable memory barrier instructions in
SetLatch/ResetLatch, so that their callers don't need to be quite so
careful.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4e15a4db5e65e43271f8 d20750d6500ab12=
632d0

- Measure WaitLatch's timeout parameter in milliseconds, not
microseconds. The original definition had the problem that timeouts
exceeding about 2100 seconds couldn't be specified on 32-bit
machines. Milliseconds seem like sufficient resolution, and finer
grain than that would be fantasy anyway on many platforms.
Back-patch to 9.1 so that this aspect of the latch API won't change
between 9.1 and later releases. Peter Geoghegan
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9f17ffd8660243382809 b8023ff3d38fbfa=
c4e8b

- Change the autovacuum launcher to use WaitLatch instead of a poll
loop. In pursuit of this (and with the expectation that WaitLatch
will be needed in more places), convert the latch field that was
already added to PGPROC for sync rep into a generic latch that is
activated for all PGPROC-owning processes, and change many of the
standard backend signal handlers to set that latch when a signal
happens. This will allow WaitLatch callers to be wakened properly
by these signals. In passing, fix a whole bunch of signal handlers
that had been hacked to do things that might change errno, without
adding the necessary save/restore logic for errno. Also make some
minor fixes in unix_latch.c, and clean up bizarre and unsafe scheme
for disowning the process's latch. Much of this has to be
back-patched into 9.1. Peter Geoghegan, with additional work by Tom
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4dab3d5ae1498eb4246e 54225a48cf667ab=
693da

- Back-patch assorted latch-related fixes. Fix a whole bunch of
signal handlers that had been hacked to do things that might change
errno, without adding the necessary save/restore logic for errno.
Also make some minor fixes in unix_latch.c, and clean up bizarre and
unsafe scheme for disowning the process's latch. While at it,
rename the PGPROC latch field to procLatch for consistency with 9.2.
Issues noted while reviewing a patch by Peter Geoghegan.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/989f530d3f793ed1c990 d705d0958bfd2a5=
33b85

- Add a bit of debug logging to backend_read_statsfile(). This is in
hopes of learning more about what causes "pgstat wait timeout"
warnings in the buildfarm. This patch should probably be reverted
once we've learned what we can. As coded, it will result in
regression test "failures" at half the delay that the existing code
does, so I expect to see a few more than before.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/79b2ee20c8a041a85dd2 30c4e787bef22ed=
ae57b

- Remove wal_sender_delay GUC, because it's no longer useful. The
latch infrastructure is now capable of detecting all cases where the
walsender loop needs to wake up, so there is no reason to have an
arbitrary timeout. Also, modify the walsender loop logic to follow
the standard pattern of ResetLatch, test for work to do, WaitLatch.
The previous coding was both hard to follow and buggy: it would
sometimes busy-loop despite having nothing available to do, eg
between receipt of a signal and the next time it was caught up with
new WAL, and it also had interesting choices like deciding to update
to WALSNDSTATE_STREAMING on the strength of information known to be
obsolete.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cff75130b5f63e45423c 2ed90d6f2e84c21=
ef840

- Teach unix_latch.c to use poll() where available. poll() is
preferred over select() on platforms where both are available,
because it tends to be a bit faster and it doesn't have an arbitrary
limit on the range of FD numbers that can be accessed. The FD range
limit does not appear to be a risk factor for any 9.1 usages, so
this doesn't need to be back-patched, but we need to have it in
place if we keep on expanding the uses of WaitLatch.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a180776f7a1c4554f214 bd9e67bd63bfaf3=
3e339

- Fix incorrect timeout handling during initial authentication
transaction. The statement start timestamp was not set before
initiating the transaction that is used to look up client
authentication information in pg_authid. In consequence,
enable_sig_alarm computed a wrong value (far in the past) for
statement_fin_time. That didn't have any immediate effect, because
the timeout alarm was set without reference to statement_fin_time;
but if we subsequently blocked on a lock for a short time,
CheckStatementTimeout would consult the bogus value when we
cancelled the lock timeout wait, and then conclude we'd timed out,
leading to immediate failure of the connection attempt. Thus an
innocent "vacuum full pg_authid" would cause failures of concurrent
connection attempts. Noted while testing other, more serious
consequences of vacuum full on system catalogs. We should set the
statement timestamp before StartTransactionCommand(), so that the
transaction start timestamp is also valid. I'm not sure if there
are any non-cosmetic effects of it not being valid, but the xact
timestamp is at least sent to the statistics machinery. Back-patch
to 9.0. Before that, the client authentication timeout was done
outside any transaction and did not depend on this state to be
valid.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/592b615d71caac8a3504 276a805a6fd024c=
40041

- Fix unsafe order of operations in foreign-table DDL commands. When
updating or deleting a system catalog tuple, it's necessary to
acquire RowExclusiveLock on the catalog before looking up the tuple;
otherwise a concurrent VACUUM FULL on the catalog might move the
tuple to a different TID before we can apply the update. Coding
patterns that find the tuple via a table scan aren't at risk here,
but when obtaining the tuple from a catalog cache, correct ordering
is important; and several routines in foreigncmds.c got it wrong.
Noted while running the regression tests in parallel with VACUUM
FULL of assorted system catalogs. For consistency I moved all the
heap_open calls to the starts of their functions, including a couple
for which there was no actual bug. Back-patch to 8.4 where
foreigncmds.c was added.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/52994e9e5686b10a92bc 93ec0f4e15c7fbc=
18242

Heikki Linnakangas pushed:

- Fix grammar and spelling in log message.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5b6c8436d7e696cced4d b14c885eff23f87=
dc712

- Change the way string relopts are allocated. Don't try to allocate
the default value for a string relopt in the same palloc chunk as
the relopt_string struct. That didn't work too well if you added a
built-in string relopt in the stringRelOpts array, as it's not
possible to have an initializer for a variable length struct in C.
This makes the code slightly simpler too. While we're at it, move
the call to validator function in add_string_reloption to before the
allocation, so that if someone does pass a bogus default value, we
don't leak memory.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/77949a2913b3cbaa7b2e 2a73f014d541e25=
1f18b

- If backup-end record is not seen, and we reach end of recovery from
a streamed backup, throw an error and refuse to start up. The
restore has not finished correctly in that case and the data
directory is possibly corrupt. We already errored out in case of
archive recovery, but could not during crash recovery because we
couldn't distinguish between the case that pg_start_backup() was
called and the database then crashed (must not error, data is OK),
and the case that we're restoring from a backup and not all the
needed WAL was replayed (data can be corrupt). To distinguish those
cases, add a line to backup_label to indicate whether the backup was
taken with pg_start/stop_backup(), or by streaming (ie.
pg_basebackup). This requires re-initdb, because of a new field
added to the control file.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/41f9ffd928b6fdcedd68 5483e777b0fa71e=
ce47c

- Oops, we're working on version 9.2 already, not 9.1. Update the
PG_CONTROL_VERSION accordingly; I updated it wrong in previous
commit.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1f1b70a7cf957b88433f 871f3732ad5701b=
6ad8b

Peter Eisentraut pushed:

- Use clearer notation for getnameinfo() return handling. Writing if
(getnameinfo(...)) {handle_error()}; reads quite strangely, so use
something like if (getnameinfo(...) !=3D 0) {handle_error()}; instead.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f4a9da0a150ead846be3 3c38f665f4337a8=
1054e

- Fix typo
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7431cb251a6c36ea520f 955dd03d4b35b0f=
0f3e4

- Message style improvements
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/85612039b9eab75c2a29 399f3a394acd4ca=
4cc3f

Bruce Momjian pushed:

- Add major features list and introductory text for 9.1 release notes.
Backpatch to 9.1, obviously.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/eb72adc82e933f135369 d846c2151c7694f=
faa36

- Make USECS_PER_* timestamp macros visible even when we are not using
integer timestamps.
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6d7bd5dec9e073018d9c 2bea51d8e271cf5=
a5af6

== Abgelehnte Patches (bis jetzt) ==

No one was disappointed this week :-)

== Eingesandte Patches ==

Robert Haas sent in a patch which replaces lseek() with fstat() to get
file sizes.

Alex Hunsaker sent in a patch to fix an issue with PL/Perl's signal
handling.

Robert Haas sent in a patch to fix an issue where WaitLatch is
vulnerable to weak memory ordering issues.

Heikki Linnakangas sent in a patch enforcing that all WAL has been
replayed after restoring from backup.

Alexander Korotkov and Heikki Linnakangas traded patches for fast GiST
index build.

David Byrne sent in a patch intended to fix a mismatch in pg_upgrades
count for current and new relations.

Robert Haas sent in another revision of the patch to allow index-only
scans, and there was much rejoicing.

Shigeru HANADA sent in a patch to make the output of fdw options
clearer in psql.

Simon Riggs sent in a patch intended to fix some lameness in the
buffer replacement strategy.

Heikki Linnakangas sent in a patch to allow inserting heap tuples up
to a page worth at a time in COPY. Previously, the procedure was to
insert heap tuples individually.

David Fetter sent in a patch to make the copyright program idempoetent
and cross-platform.

Alex Hunsaker sent in a patch to make PL/Perl handle empty arrays
better.

Tom Lane sent in a patch intended to to fix VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER so
that they don't change existing toast item OIDs when vacuuming a
system catalog.

--
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Deutsche PostgreSQL User Group: http://www.pgug.de/
DPWN: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/categories/18-PWN




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